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<p n="2">THE Ordinary of NEWGATE HIS ACCOUNT OF The Behaviour, Confessions, and Last Speeches of the Malefactors that were Executed at Tyburn on <rs type="date" id="OA17180127_date2">Monday the 27th of January, 1717</rs>
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/1718.</p>
<p n="3">AT the general Quarter-Sessions held at Justice-hall in the Old-bailey, on <rs type="date" id="OA17180127_date3">Friday the 10th</rs>
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, <rs type="date" id="OA17180127_date4">Saturday the 11th</rs>
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, and <rs type="date" id="OA17180127_date5">Wednesday the 15th of January, 1717/1718</rs>
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; Eleven Persons, viz. Six Men, and Five Women, who were Try'd for, and found Guilty of, several Capital Crimes, did accordingly receive Sentence of Death: But Two of the Women that pleaded their Pregnancy, and were (by the Verdict of 12 Matrons) brought in to be with Quick Child, having their Judgment respited, and the three other Women, with three of the Men, being (by HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY's great Mercy) Repriev'd, together with <rs type="persName" id="OA17180127_n3-1">John Hall</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="OA17180127_n3-2">alias Clark</rs>
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, who was also Repriev'd last night, but for 8 days only, (which Mercy I wish they may duly improve) but Two Men are now order'd for Execution.</p>
<p n="4">While they lay under this Condemnation, I constantly visited them, and to that Purpose had them brought up, twice every day, to the Chapel of Newgate, where I pray'd with them, read and expounded the Word of GOD to them; giving them from it such Instructions and Admonitions as I judg'd most suitable to their weak Capacities and deplorable Circumstances, thereby endeavouring to bring them to a State of true Repentance and a happy Change of Life, both here and hereafter.</p>
<p n="5">On the Lord's Day, the <rs type="date" id="OA17180127_date6">12th instant</rs>
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, I preach'd to them and others there present, both in the Morning and Afternoon, upon part of the Epistle appointed for that Morning-Service, viz. Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that you present your Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable unto God; which is your Reasonable Service.</p>
<p n="6">After a general Explanation of which Words, I shew'd the great Import of them, under these Particulars;</p>
<p n="7">I. The Preface, which is most emphatical, moving, and perswasive. I beseech you, Brethren, by the Mercies of God.</p>
<p n="8">II. The Exhortation to the Performance of this great and comfortable Duty, viz. That you present your Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable unto God.</p>
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